Word: monarchistic
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Some Leipzig student players recently visited him at Doom. Said Wilhelm, addressing them: "The only thing that bears me up here is the constant growth of the monarchist movement in Germany. I cannot understand why my abdication was taken as a matter of course by the German people when I had done such immeasurable good for the country, always seeing to it that even the poorest had a sufficient income. I don't know how I can face my grandfather. . . . My hands were clean in the great struggle which was caused by Russia. Our May offensive was the greatest success...
...caused a good deal of comment in the press; although the people, surprisingly enough, refrained from any outward manifestation of their contempt or approval. The absence of rotten eggs and other uncomplimentary gifts is considered by the antiroyalist press as nothing short of a 1923 miracle; even the monarchist journals are not too enthusiastic for Wilhelm. Herewith some comments...
...prominent German Republican: " If the German monarchist movement depended merely upon the person of Wilhelm II, we republicans would not have to worry...
...Deutsche Tageszeitung, monarchist paper: " He (Bismarck) did not even know how to smoke a pipe...
...whole of Germany is plunged into wildest pandemonium, which is in turn aggravated by the radicals fighting against all comers-for peace! In a country gone sick with misery a solitary phantom strides the earth with noiseless, slippery, dreadful steps -Ludendorff. This crafty man is the leader of the monarchists. He moves but is not seen. From Munich he directs the operations of his reactionary adherents in much the same way that he directed the army supplies when he was Quartermaster General in the Imperial Army. He writes, make speeches, acts for the cause of royalism; but in all this...